The Discoverie of Witchcraft

They sacrifice their owne children to the divell before baptisme, holding them in the aire unto him, and then thrust a needle into their braines . . . They use incestuous adulterie with spirits . . . THey eate the flesh and drinke the blood of men and children openlie . . . They kill mens cattell . . . They bewitch mens corne . . . They ride and flie in the aire, bring stormes, make tempests . . . They use venerie with a divell called Incubus and have children by them, which become the best witches . . .

In 1584, when there were few who would even defend witches against these charges, Reginald Scot went one step further. He actually set out to prove that witches did not and could not exist! King James later found Scot’s opinion so heretical that he ordered all copies of his book to be burned. But so rich and full of data on the charges against witches, on witch trials and on the actual practice of the black arts was Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft that it remained a much-used source throughout the 17th and 18th centuries and is still one of the few primary sources for the study of witchcraft today.

Format: Paperback, 283 pages
ISBN: 9780486260303
Publisher: Dover Occult
Published: 1 May, 1990
Weight: 550 g
Dimensions: 250 x 170 x 17 mm

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